Here in Ireland at the moment our fantastic government have introduced a lovely kick in the teeth to Lone parents who are receiving a Lone parent payment. They are cutting this benefit once a parents child turns 7. A lot of Lone parents here are working (you can work 20 hours a week while retaining your payment) so basically these parents will lose their payment and most will be pushed into poverty.
The governments reasoning is the parent can just increase their working hours and make up the money they are losing. OK yes but do they not think most would have done this already if that was the case. Now parents will face increase in childcare fees or they can apply for job seekers allowance which is just exchanging one payment for the other.
I just can't understand how they think this can work. I feel dispair at how this country is being driven into the ground.
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LucyBabs · 04/07/2015 23:46
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